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A lockdown was issued after a student reported seeing a man with a "handgun protruding out from his waistband" Wednesday afternoon.
About 4,000 people were "under a shelter-in-place emergency," while police searched each classroom.
During the lockdown, a Manchester police officer was shot in the foot. However, he did not shoot himself. It was an accidental discharge by another officer.
About 24 hours after the lockdown was lifted at Manchester Community College, the campus seemcidental discharge by another officer.
After about six hours, the lockdown was lifted after no one with a firearm was located on the campus.
"I wasn't really apprehensive," said student Jonathan Taylor. "I think they got everything under control now."
Some students told Eyewitness News that it was hard to come to Manchester Community College Thursday morning.
"My parents actually had to convince me to come back to school today," said student Diana Dunn.
State police told Eyewitness News even though the possible suspect was never found, it believes the call the agency received on the suspect was believable.
It's an education bombshell.
Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University's community college system.
The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.
When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn't make the grade.
They had to re-learn basic skills - reading, writing and math - first before they could begin college courses.
They are part of a disturbing statistic.
Officials told CBS 2′s Kramer that nearly 80 percent of those who graduate from city high schools arrived at City University's community college system without having mastered the skills to do college-level work.
In sheer numbers it means that nearly 11,000 kids who got diplomas from city high schools needed remedial courses to re-learn the basics.
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Just like an addict, the modern convenience seeker is rarely aware of the damage that the need to feed the need is causing.
The pursuit of convenience is big business and over the last 60-75 years we have experienced a profound cultural shift towards disposable consumerism. We've been sold the idea that life must be easy, and that the mundane things in life are to be rushed or delegated so that more time is available for enjoying ourselves. For several generations now our culture has been programmed to place an overly high value on convenience, and the flip side of this is that we have grown to loathe inconvenience to such a degree that we now perceive even slight delays in the delivery of convenience as inconveniences.
Who has time for anything to go wrong in our world today?
Our addiction to this complex lifestyle, requiring ever-compounded convenience, is one of the subtlest and most addictive tyrannies of the modern age.
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Big Apple has big problem with seafood fraud: 94 percent of tuna and more than three quarters of sushi samples in New York City mislabeled.
Of the 142 fish samples collected in New York, 39 percent were mislabeled. New York City led the nation with the highest occurrence of mislabeled salmon as well as the highest amount of fraud among salmon collected from grocery stores and restaurants.
Smith reportedly helped set up the sale of the drugs by way of a series of text and voice communications on her cell phone on February 13, the day before the teenager died.
"We know that Marco was brutally murdered. His body was found on Wednesday, February 26, 2013, beaten, dragged and burned (set afire)," his family said in an email released through his campaign manager Jarod Keith. "This was reported in our meeting with the local coroner on two occasions. We were informed that the official autopsy report could take two to four weeks to complete.
Sharp is a veteran detective in the NYPD's Brooklyn gang unit. According to court records, the 37-year-old struck his child after having a fight with his wife Michelle, 38. The fight occurred at the couple's home in Nassau County. Alcohol was involved.
"I had an argument with my wife and punched the wall," Sharp said, according to court records. "I had a few drinks today."
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And the man was never even convicted.
Now, former inmate Stephen Slevin has received a $15 million settlement to compensate for the torture he endured in the New Mexico jail cell. Slevin spent 22 months in solitary confinement, where he was denied access to a dentist and was forced to pull out his own tooth.
"He rocked [the tooth] back and forth over a period of eight hours before he was able to pull it out of his mouth," his attorney, Matthew Coyte, told the Associated Press.
Slevin was also deprived of showers, human contact, and outdoor recreation. While incarcerated from 2005 to 2007, fungus grew on his skin, his toenails grew so long they began to curl up, he suffered from malnutrition, and he lost a significant amount of weight.
Locked up in a 6-by-11 foot cell with no outside contact, Slevin's mental health quickly deteriorated.
"They left him long enough where he fell into a delirium and began to decay, essentially, as a human being," Coyte said.
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Similar proposals have been considered in about two dozen states since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre last December, according to The New York Times.
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The stark warning was issued by the country's Environment Minister Edna Molewa on the sidelines of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok.
"We think we will start to have problems around the year 2016," she said, adding 146 rhinos have been killed illegally since the start of the year with 50 suspected poachers arrested over the same period.
Some 668 rhinos were slaughtered in 2012, a grim record that on current trends will be surpassed this year.
The white rhino population is estimated at just over 18,000 and its birth rate is higher than mortality rates, according to Fundisile Mketani, an official from the nation's Department of the Environment.
